7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer

Last year I posted a roundup of the best Photoshop alternatives aimed at casual designers or hobbyists who wants to fulfill their creative passion, but don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive industry standard software. I’m a big Illustrator fan myself and I post loads of Illustrator tutorials here on my blog, but… Continue reading 7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer

10 Fresh JavaScript Libraries for Web Developers

JavaScript library is pre-written JavaScript code snippets for specific functionality to ease web developer work. These JavaScript libraries are the best resource for the web developers. JavaScript libraries are developed by professional developers to help out novice web developers. You will get benefited with these JavaScript libraries for AJAX development and JavaScript Application development. There… Continue reading 10 Fresh JavaScript Libraries for Web Developers

15 Free And Awesome Responsive WordPress Themes

In this round up, we are showcasing some fresh and awesome free responsive WordPress themes. WordPress is very well-accepted and well-known blogging platform that’s why millions of people are using it. With these WordPress themes, you will be provided with wonderful features which are very useful for your work. Furthermore, all these WordPress themes are… Continue reading 15 Free And Awesome Responsive WordPress Themes

7 Best Practices of Responsive Web Design

Considering the rate at which the mobile web is growing, it’s becoming crucial that your website be ready to accept visitors who are coming in from a widely assorted array of different devices and screen sizes. This is where responsive design can come into the picture and save your day nicely. However, with responsive design,… Continue reading 7 Best Practices of Responsive Web Design

HTML5 features with GWT Elemental

HTML5 is revolutionizing the web. The web application has features which are comparable to most of the desktop applications. The new features of the HTML5 make browser a powerful platform to develop next generation applications. The APIs and document object model (DOM) are fundamental parts of the HTML5 specification. The programming language of choice in… Continue reading HTML5 features with GWT Elemental

Long Exposure Wallpapers [Wallpaper Wednesday]

Photography may help in growing your passion for doing things that may seem ordinary to others but feel absolutely unique to you. Indeed, even seemingly ordinary things like roads and cars can make a totally unique scene through the eyes of a photographer. With effort and more importantly passion, one can produce amazing results like… Continue reading Long Exposure Wallpapers [Wallpaper Wednesday]

The Creation of “Mechanical Man” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this “Mechanical Man” digital art in Photoshop. We will use a number of photo manipulation techniques to merge several objects into one piece, and apply image adjustments to fine-tune each of the objects to achieve the desired effect. This is an immediate level tutorial… Continue reading The Creation of “Mechanical Man” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Elementary OS Luna: The Linux Distro That Works Like Mac OS

Mac OS X is definitely one of, if not the most, consistent and aesthetically pleasing desktop OS on the market to date but in order to use it, you still need to get a Mac. If you work on a Windows PC and don’t want to build a Hackintosh, you can try this alternative: Elementary… Continue reading Elementary OS Luna: The Linux Distro That Works Like Mac OS

20 Creative Resume Website Templates to Improve Your Online Presence

Every professional should have an online portfolio or presentation website. There are many types of personal websites you can choose to have. For example you can opt for simple vCards or one-page portfolios, or if you have more works to showcase you can choose to have a complex portfolio website with a great gallery and… Continue reading 20 Creative Resume Website Templates to Improve Your Online Presence

10 Professional-Looking and High Quality Fonts for Web Designers

The importance of fonts to designers has always been emphasized. Many design blogs also agree that as designers, choosing high quality fonts is like choosing your clothes. People will think of you differently if you sport the wrong one. That is why we collected ten beautiful fonts for you that you will never hesitate using.… Continue reading 10 Professional-Looking and High Quality Fonts for Web Designers

Create a Vinyl Record Player Icon in Adobe Illustrator

In the following steps you will learn how to create a vinyl player icon in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, using a simple grid and the snap to grid feature along with basic tools you will create the main shapes. Next, you will learn how to create a conical gradient using a somewhat complex mesh. Using… Continue reading Create a Vinyl Record Player Icon in Adobe Illustrator

45 Search Box PSD Designs For Free Download

This time we are presenting for you a fresh collection of 45 attractive search box PSD designs that you can download for free, at times, search boxes are overlooked by the visitors because of their simplicity and unappealing designs. If this is the problem you are facing then we will encourage you to take a… Continue reading 45 Search Box PSD Designs For Free Download

Work Smarter, Not Harder: How to Create Compelling Content on a Small Budget

As your competitors are angling for the best possible spot on Google search results, you can’t sit idly by and hope that your current and prospective customers will cut through the thicket in search of your website and social-media channels. At times, you’ll be fighting in the ring with bigger and stronger opponents. A cunning… Continue reading Work Smarter, Not Harder: How to Create Compelling Content on a Small Budget

Tell A Story With Your Web Design – It Always Works

The most popular websites on the World Wide Web are able to impressively convey information about their brand and what it stands for. This helps generate user interest in their brand and ensures the website message is delivered in a way that makes maximum impact on website visitors.  They do this by using one of… Continue reading Tell A Story With Your Web Design – It Always Works

20 Beautiful Portfolio Website Templates for Artists

As an artist, portfolios are a must, and because we live in the era of technology, an online portfolio is a great way to attract more clients and thus, increase your revenue. We’ve done the hard part for you, and looked around the web for the best portfolio website templates for artists, painters, illustrators, designers… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Portfolio Website Templates for Artists

10 Beautiful & Free Website PSD Templates

Over the years we have provided loads of free design PSDs and resources, however never have we touched on prebuilt website PSD templates. Many designers create free PSDs for promotional purposes, general practice or to just provide a freebie for others to benefit from. Here are 10 quality website PSD templates that you can use,… Continue reading 10 Beautiful & Free Website PSD Templates

Hummingbird: What It Means For SEO, and What It Does For Google’s Status

Content takes on new meaning with Google’s new algorithm, which is codenamed Hummingbird. In fact, Hummingbird takes into context not just content but how that content is written. As the latest salvo fired by the internet company to stay atop the web browser game, as was the case with previous iterations of algorithms Penguin and… Continue reading Hummingbird: What It Means For SEO, and What It Does For Google’s Status

20 New Pixel Perfect WordPress Themes

I have collected a new round-up of recently released WordPress themes that are a perfect way to give your site a complete overhaul. These WordPress themes all feature some lovely well thought out pixels which look lovely on both large screens and small mobile devices. Take a look and see which themes you could use… Continue reading 20 New Pixel Perfect WordPress Themes

11 Free Useful & Responsive Templates

Hi guys, here’s another episode of our resources series in which we’ll handpick latest, unique and useful resources for our designer community. Being a designer/developer myself I perfectly know how these resources save us a lot of trouble with some very tight deadlines. So, today I’ve selected 11 very useful and creative Responsive Templates and… Continue reading 11 Free Useful & Responsive Templates

Getting Started With Pixelmator

Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac. In this tutorial, we will give you a brief introduction to Pixelmator. We will begin by taking a look at the Pixelmator workspace, show you how to create a new document, adjust Pixelmator’s preferences, and how to do some work in Pixelmator… Continue reading Getting Started With Pixelmator

4 Tools to Build an Amazing Website

You pride yourself on your ability to code websites by hand, shaking your cane at these upstart web designers who rely on HTML editors and even the dreaded WYSIWYG tools. However, even the best from-scratch developers benefit from some designing tools. You want to work smarter, not harder, and tools can help you get your… Continue reading 4 Tools to Build an Amazing Website

9 Free PSDs for Showcasing your Design Work

When it comes to presenting your designs, sometimes it is not enough to simply show a screenshot. It’s better to showcase your work the way it will actually appear in it’s final state. If it’s an app, show it on an iPhone screen. If it’s a business card design, mock it up on a stack… Continue reading 9 Free PSDs for Showcasing your Design Work